continuus
Latin
Etymology
From contin(eō) (“to hold together”) + -uus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈti.nu.us/, [kɔnˈtɪ.nʊ.ʊs]
Adjective
continuus (feminine continua, neuter continuum); first/second declension
- continuous, uninterrupted, successive
- (temporal) straight, in a row, whole (Biennio continuo post adeptum imperium... For two whole years after assuming power...)
Inflection
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | continuus | continua | continuum | continuī | continuae | continua | |
Genitive | continuī | continuae | continuī | continuōrum | continuārum | continuōrum | |
Dative | continuō | continuō | continuīs | ||||
Accusative | continuum | continuam | continuum | continuōs | continuās | continua | |
Ablative | continuō | continuā | continuō | continuīs | |||
Vocative | continue | continua | continuum | continuī | continuae | continua |
Descendants
References
- continuus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- continuus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- continuus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- continuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- an allegory; continuous metaphor: continua translatio (Or. 27. 94)
- an allegory; continuous metaphor: continua translatio (Or. 27. 94)
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